Book 5 in Charlie Team: Guardian Hostage Rescue Specialists · Romantic suspense · Reads as a standalone · Guaranteed HEA
About the book
A Navy SEAL sworn to protect her. A trafficking survivor with secrets that could get them both killed.
Blake's SEAL training prepared him for hostage extractions, kill zones, and impossible odds. It did not prepare him for Sophia. She's enigmatic, alluring, and a magnet for danger — recently freed from the brutal world of human trafficking and haunted by shadows he can barely comprehend. The closer he gets, the clearer the truth becomes: her past isn't only a threat to her. It's a threat to everything he holds dear.
Sophia can't tell him the half of it. Her secrets are the only thing keeping everything she's fought so hard to protect safe. But Blake's strength, his fierce protectiveness, pulls at every wall she's built. She wants to trust him. She wants to let him in.
The price of that might be more than either of them can survive.
Because the past hasn't finished with her. It's been waiting. And it knows exactly where she is.
One wrong move. One moment of weakness. Everything she's fought to protect — gone.
Blake will burn his career, his future, and his heart to the ground before he lets that happen. The only question left is whether Sophia trusts him in time to stop it.
Heart-pounding suspense, impossible choices, and a love that survives what should have destroyed it.
Tropes, heat and content notes
- Tropes: protective Navy SEAL hero, trafficking survivor heroine, secrets and lies, slow-burn trust, a past that won't stay buried
- Heat: steamy
- Point of view: dual first person, present tense, Blake and Sophia
- Ending: a happily ever after, with no cliffhanger
- Content notes: a trafficking survivor's past, trauma recovery, violence. Adults 18+.
Where it fits in the series
Rescuing Sophia is book 5 of 8 in Charlie Team: Guardian Hostage Rescue Specialists, the third team in Guardian Hostage Rescue Specialists.
- Before it: Jenna's Protector (book 4).
- After it: Rescuing Malia (book 6).
Questions readers ask
Can I read Rescuing Sophia as a standalone?
Yes. Blake and Sophia's story is complete in this book. Characters from the earlier Charlie Team books show up, so reading in order helps.
How spicy is Rescuing Sophia?
Steamy.
Does Rescuing Sophia end on a cliffhanger?
No. Blake and Sophia get their happily ever after.
Is Rescuing Sophia in Kindle Unlimited?
Yes. Every Charlie Team book is in Kindle Unlimited.